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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF
STATE POLICY
The principles of absulute trust and
faith in the Almighty Allah, nationalism,democracy and socialism meaning
economic and social justice constitute the fundamental principle of state
policy.
These principles are expressed as follows:
-- Absolute trust and faith in the
Almighy Allah as the basis of all actions.
-- Promotion of local government institutions.
-- Participation of women in national life.
-- Democracy and human rights.
-- Principles of state, co-operative and private ownership.
-- Emancipation of peasants and workers from all form of exploitation.
-- Provision of basic necessities of life.
-- Rural development and agricultural revolution.
-- Free and compulsory primary education.
-- Free education of girls upto grade eight in all rural areas.
-- Promotion of family planning and reduction fertility, mother and child
health care.
-- Improvement of public health and reduction of mortality and morbidity.
-- Ensuring equality of opportunity.
-- Work as a right and duty for every able citizen. -- Seperation of judiciary
from executive.
-- Protection of national monuments, objects or places of special artistic
or historic importance or interest.
-- Promotion of regional cooperation in the South Asian Region through
SAARC.
-- Promotion of international peace, security and solidarity and consolidation,
preservation, and strengthening fraternal relations among Muslim countries.
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AS PROVIDED
BY THE CONSTITUTION
-- Equality of all citizens before
law.
-- Nodiscrimination against any citizen on grounds of religion, race, sex
or place of birth.
-- Equality of opportunity in public employment.
-- Right to protection of law.
-- Protection of right to life and personal liberty.
-- Prohibition of forced labor.
-- Safeguards as to arrest and detention.
-- Protection in respect of trial and punishment.
-- Freedom of movement, assembly, association, thought and conscience and
of speech, profession or occupation and religion.
-- Rights to property.
-- Protection of the privacy of home and correspondence.
-- Enforcement of fundamental rights through courts of law.
-- Laws and enactment's inconsistent with fundamental right are void.
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first created on 12th of September, 1997 and is maintained by Muhammad
A. Mehedi.
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